The Three Stooges made 2 of their shorts in 3D since it was the 50s and that was the popular craze. This is the more horror-themed of the two(the other one PARDON MY BACKFIRE is sadly not about farts but about just being mechanics). You get a mad scientist attempting to put the brain of a beautiful gal inside the head of a gorilla. There's also a big ugly henchman, knives and other weapons thrown at the screen and lots of rampaging gorilla hijinks. One of my favorite shorts with Shemp and even when not in 3D good stupid fun.
This is a British sci-fli movie that feels kinda like an old episode of DR. WHO that's stretched out to feature length. There's a group of scientists that are sent to outer space, along with a couple of older folks whose sole purpose seems to be to act as comic relief from time to time, to learn the secrets about some warring aliens and how to defend the Earth from the bad aliens(aka The Terrornauts!). It's a bit talky at first but if you manage to stay awake you get an oversized Dalek-like robot, an alien with an eyeball under it's arm our green -skinned titular Terrornauts looking to do some human sacrificing of ladies. Goofy enough for a chuckle but hardly essential viewing. Maybe the weirdest thing I've ever seen from Amicus Studios though.
In this last entry in the Roger Corman-directed Edgar Allan Poe series from AIP studios Vincent Price wears some snazzy shades and pines for his dead wife and then gets remarried and becomes a hypnotist. There's lots of ghost shenanigans and a naughty black cat and Price acting like a koo-koo nutbird which is his specialty. I'm not sure if I would rate this one all that high up in the series (PIT AND THE PENDULUM and TALES OF TERROR are my 2 favs) but they're all enjoyable enough for a look at by Price fans.
It's hard to watch this one with the knowledge that it was originally going to star Vincent Price and not imagine it would have been improved by his presence. That's not to say that Ray Milland doesn't do a good job it's just hard for anyone to top Price in these Roger Corman directed Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and that inevitably leads to some minor disappointment while viewing.
The story itself deals with a guy(Milland) whose family has a history of being buried alive so that's his greatest fear. Guess what ends up happening to him?
This was the 3rd Corman/Poe film and the only one not to star Vincent Price.
Corman's Poe adaptations:
1960 - HOUSE OF USHER
1961 - THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
1962 - PREMATURE BURIAL
1962 - TALES OF TERROR
1963 - THE RAVEN
1963 - THE HAUNTED PALACE
1964 - THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
1964 - TOMB OF LIGEIA
Known in France as THE OBSESSION:
Weird British double feature where everything is rated X!
This one is a very TWILIGHT ZONE-ish tale of a fellow who takes over at the local cemetary and believes he can cause people to die simply by placing black pins in their plots on a big board in the ol' graveyard office. He also summizes that by that logic he should also be able to bring them back to life by using white pins which almost turns this into a 50s zombie flick. Unfortunately there are a few semi-surprising reveals at the end, that I won't spoil, that thwarts that expectation. Not my fav 50s horror and it probably coulda been shortened a lot without losing any of it's impact but interesting enough for a one-time watch.
Known in spanish under the less zombie-ish title of THE MARKED GRAVES:
This is one of those 80s horror flicks that somehow got 8 sequels and 2 remakes and I have no idea how. I know this played on cable a whole bunch back in the 80s and 90s and is still popular enough to this day but I have never really understood the appeal. There are a bunch of way better killer kid movies and there are also a bunch of way better Stephen King adaptations(even better ones that were based on short stories like this one!). I guess it just hit at the right time that everyone was looking to see a town of children killing grown-ups. Can't say I ever feel the need to check out any of the sequels. They did wait until the 90s to pop out the first sequel so I assume that had to do with its TV following and not the initial boxoffice popularity.
Linda Hamilton also made THE TERMINATOR this same year and became a big star so I guess that's something.
All the CHILDRENS OF THE CORN!(so far):
2. CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: FINAL SACRIFICE (1992)
3. CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST (1995)
4. CHILDREN OF THE CORN IV: THE GATHERING (1996) The first shot-on-video sequel
5. CHILDREN OF THE CORN V: THE FIELDS OF TERROR (1998)
6. CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666: ISAAC'S RETURN (1999) the return of little John Franklin as Isaac(he was also in Part 5 as a different character)
7. CHILDREN OF THE CORN REVELATION (2001) They gave up on the numbers!
8. CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2009) This was a TV movie remake of the original story
9. CHILDREN OF THE CORN: GENESIS (2011) Isn't this also the subtitle of one of the TERMINATOR sequels?
Before watching this at a recent RiffTrax event I had only seen bits and pieces of it, and the first movie, on TV before since it seemed to play on cable TV quite a bit. The first film was directed by Wes Craven and featured Adrienne Barbeau. This time we get Jim Wynorski(of CHOPPING MALL fame) and Heather Locklear so my expectations were not very high. It also doesn't help that this has nothing to do with the actual comic book character and is instead just a silly superhero movie but that was pretty much the norm as far as comic book adaptations at that time went. The annoying kid characters and general dumbness certainly didn't make me want to go back and watch the original anytime soon.
This is the Italian cannibal film that has the 2 biggest stars to ever do these types of films, Stacey Keach(TV's Mike Hammer) and James Bond girl Ursula Andress. Don't worry though it's still full of all the sleazy and gross elements that you have come to expect from this gutmunching genre. Animals get ripped open and eat each other for real, cannibals get down to their usual business, there's a castration and if you watch the uncut 99 minute version(titled MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD) you even get some pig-fucking bestiality, rape and just generally more explicitness. A Eurotrash classic if you can deal with all the animal stuff.
AKA SLAVE GOD!:
Known in England as PRISONER OF THE CANNIBAL GOD!:
Fan-made short(40 minutes) film made by some Long Island locals that works as a tribute to the FRIDAY THE 13th franchise. Fairly well made for what it is. Unfortunately since it's made in 2022 instead of having an actual ending it just ends with the stupid "all women kick ass" message that every movie made since DEATHPROOF must be imbued with. If you enjoy dumb slasher movies with an extremely dumb ending I guess give it a look.
I feel like a modern-day giant monster movie with a bunch of cgi-enhanced scenes is something I should probably hate immediately but having given this one a chance I found it entertaining enough for a breezey 80 minutes. Obviously this story has been done to death in Japanese cinema starting way back with GODZILLA in 1954 but this time they go the mostly comedic route with a monster who looks a lot like Big G except with some flipper hands, bigger back spikes and the ability to control lightning. I guess growing up and watching so many of these films from a young age this seemed different enough to amuse me. Monster turds, cute Japanese schoolgirls, actors breaking character and lots of stupidity are a few highlights. AKA RAIGA: THE MONSTER FROM THE DEEP SEA and RAIGA: GOD OF THE MONSTERS
There is a sequel that came out in 2021 called GOD RAIGA VS. KING OHGA and there's a similarly titled REIGO: KING OF THE SEA MONSTERS that predates this from 2005 but I don't think that has any relation or is a comedy.
Very unfitting J-pop music for a monster movie trailer!:
This Brune Mattei-directed Eurotrash flick was released in numerous countries as TERMINATOR II in order to fool audiences. It's actually way more of a remake of 1986's ALIENS with the android character(here named Samuel Fuller!) behaving a lot like ol' indestructible robot Arnie towards the end of the film. The alternate title of ALIENATORS is a little more accurate except it brings to mind a much more exciting movie than this. Missing much of Mattei's trademark gore and having no sex to speak of this this movie just sort of plods along from scene to scene with not much suspense at all. The goofy monsters look o.k. but just kind of stand around and grab people occasionally. Geretta Geretta plays the tough ethnic girl/Vasquez role and that elicites a few laughs but for the most part this is a fairly dull one.
This was MGM studios answer to American International Pictures TALES OF TERROR which had come out the year before. Instead of Edgar Allen Poe the source material here is Nathaniel Hawthorne. Just like the earlier TALES though this is an anthology of three short stories featuring Vincent Price. I'm way more of a fan of the AIP film since this one tends to drag for a bunch of time. The first story deals with bringing the dead back to life and restoring youth with some magical rainwater, the second tells about a dad(Price) who wants to protect his daughter from the world so much that he makes her touch poisonous to others and the third is about a family curse. Pacing is the main issue here and it's also missing the elemnt of humour that Peter Lorre brought to the other anthology. Without the excellent acting abilities of Vincent Price this might be a tough one to get through.
Best known as THE BEAST IN HEAT this is one those nazisploitation flicks that came out in the wake of ILSA, SHE-WOLF OF THE S.S. and it might be one of the sleaziest of the bunch. Macha Magall, who seems to have specialized in sleazy Italian cinema is our Ilsa stand-in and she spends pretty much the whole movie torturing various captives. This includes castration, water torture, ripping off fingernails and being eaten alive by some pretty calm-looking guinea pigs among other things. Of course the main focus is on Salvatore Baccaro as the title character who has been experimented on in order to become a raping/cannibalistic monster. His hobbies include pubic-hair eating and generally not being very nice to vaginas. There is the expected comeuppance dealt out at the end but still not the most feel-good film. Definitely memorable in it's debauchery though. AKA SS HELL CAMP and SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP 2(making this a sequel to Sergio Garrone's 1976 Nazi movie)
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